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Posts Tagged ‘Tariq Aziz’

AJK Elections 2011

By Inam R Sehri • Jun 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

For Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) polling for 38 of the 49 assembly seats held on 26th June 2011; eight seats reserved for women and technocrats. Election for three constituencies — LA-30, LA-36 and LA-41 were postponed just two days earlier. MQM termed it as an undemocratic step and part of a [...]



Pakistan Zindabad

By Muhammad Ilyas • Jun 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I love my country! Pakistan Zindabad!
When I was a kid these were favorite sentences of mine, I used to write it on my desk, on the frame of the window beside my desk in the classroom, on the door of our drawing room, and I still remember shouting these lines when I went for the [...]



Zardari’s Fear of Unknown

By Sameer Shaharyar • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari has impressed the nation with his choice of words, but he has utterly depressed the masses through his timidity and fear of unknown. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has feared that if he strikes directly at the forces of status quo, then he might be ousted from the government.
What [...]



Calling it a Day

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Triple One Brigade, the coup force, is basically responsible for the security of the President, Federal Capital Islamabad and Rawalpindi. It’s the tool of choice for staging the coup, and has been always used by the Boots to overthrow the elected government.
As Brigadier Aasim Salim Bajwa leaves for United States for a course next week, [...]



Make No Mistake

By Salman Mugsi • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The political waters of Pakistan have gone opaque, and the backdoor politics is on the high. While the law minister Farooq H. Naek prepares the 18th amendment single-handedly under the directions of Asif Ali Zardari, Zardari himself gets tough with the President, and President retorts back on equal footings.
This cross firing between PPP’s co-chairman Asif [...]



PDA : Beware of Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

By Ali Yar Khan • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mian Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari have learned many lessons in their incarceration and exile. They haven’t become 180 degree changed persons, but they have shown streaks of brilliant change after their return last year.
But unfortunately they are driven by the same old idiots on both sides. More prone and more [...]



Dumb Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

By Salman Mugsi • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan is the man under the arm of Nawaz Sharif, who has damaged PML-N even more than Chaudhary Shujaat and even Pervez Musharraf. He always give wrong advises at the right moments.
It was Nisars’ stubborness which forces Nawaz Sharif to give priority to Musharraf and bypass many senior generals to become chief [...]